Re: bash feature request: pushd -v, popd -v

[Chet Ramey]

Ben Horowitz wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I love bash, and I've been using it for a number of years.  Recently,
> I worked with software engineers who used tcsh primarily, where I grew
> to appreciate one feature of tcsh: the ability to use the commands
> pushd -v, and popd -v.
> 
> As you know, when the bash pushd and popd commands are successful,
> they print the directory stack.  In tcsh, one can additionally issue
> the command pushd -v, which is like the bash commands pushd followed
> by dirs -v.  This feature appears not to be available in bash.
> 
>   tcsh> pushd -v /tmp
>   0       /tmp
>   1       /
> 
> I find this to be a good feature of tcsh because I find that the
> output of dirs without the -v argument can get cluttered, especially
> when there are many directories on the stack.

Here's a first cut.  Salt to taste (yes, you should use getopts):

pushd()
{
        local es
        case "$1" in
        -v)     vflag=y; shift ;;
        esac

        builtin pushd "$@"
        es=$?
        [ -n "$vflag" ] && dirs -v
        return $es
}

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